This weekend we’re taking a group of young adults out into the wilderness to read Boethius and derive some consolation therein. Still room for 2-3 more if you want to join.

Today’s a beautiful day to go car-free. (Graphic from @bikewinnipeg.bsky.social)

#CareerOpportunity #NewTestament Position (FT, Open-Rank, Tenure/Track), @ The Clough School of Theology and Ministry at @ Boston College See ctsa-online.org/CareerOpport... #Highered #Catholic

Love killing off all the religion departments just as christofascism sweeps the nation.

Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain.

Tomorrow is World Car Free Day. A great day to leave to car at home and choose transit or active transportation.

Church today saw a bunch of 17-22 year-olds help folks unsteady on their feet at communion, seniors bring in heavy loads, volunteer to serve at a wedding coming up. It included a mom telling me her 7-year-old is dying to read the Scriptures. I scheduled 2 more adult baptisms for All Saints'. ⚓

My priest preached an excellent sermon about debt forgiveness today. www.youtube.com/live/fiAoWis...

Utopia isn’t possible because it’s a satire.

So does this mean we’re no longer going to arm Israel or…

ACHTUS is accepting submissions for its 2026 Colloquium, "Another World is Possible: New Directions in the Praxis of Latine Theology and Pastoral Accompaniment." Santa Clara University, July 7-10, 2026. The submission deadline is November 3, 2025. Full details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So are states still the “laboratories of democracy” or? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Got ‘er done.

Remember back when Oxford was the best university in the world?

This thread might be Sharon’s masterpiece

Hey! @daanis.ca’s new book arrived!

Looking forward to this conversation with @philipchristman.bsky.social on October 4th!

This is tomorrow, if you’ve got a couple bucks to spare, I’d really appreciate the support!

The demand for an authoritative Chistian ethic may merely be a way of shrinking from responsibility. The criterion of a Protestant ethic is whether it claims to promulgate a law which settles everything, or refuses to do so. - Emil Brunner, preface to The Divine Imperative (paraphrased)

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

The kind folks at Westcott have made me sound much cooler than I really am. Really pumped to get to work with doctoral students through this opportunity. www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...

Yes! Yes! arocha.ca/here-we-are-...

Pope Normal I

Pope Bob says no AI popes. www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

ICYMI

Winnipeg stays winning.

The sooner people realize that the Christofascists behind Project 2025 consider democracy to be an obstacle to be destroyed on the path towards a white patriarchal ethnostate, the more current US politics will make sense.

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

People my age talk mad shit about how the world has gone to shit in our lifetimes. Here's a progressive community organiser running to make it a little more right.

Pope Leo should nuke this shit from orbit.

Counterpoint - no we can't. theanglican.ca/we-can-hear-...

This would be roughly a dollar CAD per psalm today. I know a lot of churches are pretty skint today, but imagine getting your entire congregation to memorize the psalms for the low-low price of $150 per person?

"The ambassador says the elbows up expression is anti-American." Astutely recognized, sir!

Why are mainliners so hostile to good graphic design?

Douthat's and Klein's idea that progressive speakers should tour churches and tell the truth about Climate Change, women's health, science, or even the Bible itself is like circus-clownshow levels of severed from reality...

In case it's not clear, there is no way in hell that evangelical pastors would consent to something like this entering their churches. I couldn't even get churches to let me talk to them (as a theologian) about immigration or climate change in former jobs at CHRISTIAN organizations that I've had.

This is what we used to call “blasphemy” religionnews.com/2025/09/17/c...

So, being anti-fascist is going to now be designated as terrorism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The totalitarians can't allow their own government to be a source of "alternative facts"!

I don't want to hear anybody complaining about Logos theologies again until they've gone away and read some Lancelot Andrewes and John Donne.

oh no, I've started whistling christmas carols

You want to actually know why the church is dying? It's because the church has committed multiple genocides and too many of its leaders refuse to repent, so God himself is killing his church.

"I add yet farther; what flesh? The flesh of an infant. What, Verbum infans, the Word an infant? The Word and not able to speak a word?" Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons of the Nativity

Anybody want to come work with me? ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

If you work in theology and religion and are sad that Congress isn't happening next year, don't fear. St John's College has you covered.

Does answering email make anybody else feel kind of manic?

Something that seems to connect JKR’s feminism, resentment about being labeled “most privileged” as a cis white male, and arguments about which group is the “most” vulnerable is a view of suffering as competitive rather than interstitial and complex.

On Saturday, I'm riding in a cyclathon in support of my friend's skateboard program. Skatelife Manitoba provides a safe mentoring space for youth to hang out in a positive environment. If you've got a couple of bucks to spare, you can donate at the link below. give.younglife.ca/fundraiser/6...